Archive | Neptune Theatre

Show Date: November 22nd, 2017 From the very moment Gary Numan took the stage, there was one thing that was for certain: Gary is a god damn PERFORMER. His presence was expansive and seemingly lit up the room (along with his small army of pulsing lights.) As the music began, the theater oscillated between near […]

To say that Gary Numan is undergoing a renaissance would be an understatement. Although he has always been active as an artist and has an impressively prolific catalog, Numan has primarily maintained a cult status ever since the early 1980s when he released his classic and best-known records Replicas (1979), The Pleasure Principle (1979) and […]

Show Date: October 25th, 2017 The lights went out as Brian Eno’s “Deep Blue Day” sliced through the noisy crowd, and some dude near me yelled, “This is from Trainspotting!” Yea thanks bud I got that already. Slowdive took the stage and set into “Slomo,” track one off their new self-titled record and their first […]

Show Date: October 21st, 2017 On Saturday night I set out on an intrepid voyage into a wind fueled torrential rainstorm. The kind of rainstorm that shoots straight into your face, then sideways, and then somehow up underneath your hoodie. What is even the point of wearing a jacket? I SHOULD HAVE JUST WORN A […]

Australia has been pumping out incredibly talented psych bands these days who know how to make my head hurt, in all the right ways. It’s always a treat to see Aussie bands this far north and Tuesday’s show definitely didn’t let me down! They sure did bring the lights down low though to set the mood […]

Show Date: September 24th, 2017 So clearly, it’s taken me a hot minute to write out my thoughts on this one, but sometimes things get in the way you guys, and then world events get SUPER DEPRESSING. Let’s go back to a simpler time, when the leaves were just beginning to turn, when RIDE came […]

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard will be at the Neptune Theatre on October 10, 2017 with special guests Tropical Fuck Storm starting off the show (more info and tickets). So, assume you’re in a band. You get high a lot. (It’s Australia). You have a bunch of friends with guitars and a couple pals […]

Seun Kuti & The Egypt 80 will be at the Neptune Theatre on October 3, 2017 (more information and tickets). The lowest of low ends, the longest of grooves, and a smoldering mix of frontward horns and laconic, slinking guitar riffs: This is Seun Kuti and Egypt 80. And for Seun, it must be weighty […]

Unless you’re already preparing for the end of days, cut off from the world in a bunker, you’ve likely heard about RIDE‘s first record in 20 years, Weather Diaries. Have you HEARD it though? This record is absolutely fantastic and I can’t wait to hear these tracks live! It’s bound to end up on many […]

Swans have been around since the early 1980s and have undergone a fair amount of lineup changes over the years. They have also weaved through an evolution of sound from their colossally heavy pre-industrial early years to their more melodic and complex middle years to the intoxicatingly beautiful extended compositions on their last original album, Soundtracks […]